US Patent Issued to Red Hat on July 29 for "Zero-copy forwarding for network function virtualization" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,372, issued on July 29, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Zero-copy forwarding for network function virtualization" was invented by Amnon Ilan (Raanana, Israel) and Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for zero-copy forwarding for network function virtualization (NFV). An example method comprises: receiving, by a supervisor of a host computer system, a definition of a packet filter originated by a virtual execution environment running on the host computer system; responsive to validating the packet filter, associating the packet filter with a vNIC of the virtual execut...